Disciples of Christ

The Disciples of Christ (D.O.C.) was an American white supremacist gang that was formed in the early 1990s in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California by Cameron Alexander and Derek Vinyard. The gang's purpose, according to Vinyard, was to make sure that no white person should be afraid in their own neighborhood, although the group was racially-motivated, with a neo-Nazi ideology. The gang was rivals with the Crips, who moved into Venice Beach from Inglewood and Compton, and it carried out racist attacks against non-white people, whom they viewed as freeloaders. Later, Derek Vinyard would leave the gang with his brother Danny Vinyard, but the gang continued to exist even after their departure.